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A91293	Suspention suspended. Or, The divines of Syon-Colledge late claim of the power of suspending scandalous persons, from the Lords Supper (without sequestring them from any other publicke ordinance, or the society of Christians) and that by the very will and appointment of Jesus Christ (not by vertue of any ordinance of Parliament) from whom they receive both their office and authority; briefly examined, discussed, refuted by the Word of God, and arguments deduced from it; and the contrary objections cleerly answered. Wherein, a bare suspention of persons from the Lords Supper onely, without a seclusion of them from other ordinances, is proved to be no censure or discipline appointed by Jesus Christ in his Word: ... That the Lords Supper is frequently, not rarely to be administred as well to unregenerate Christians to convert them, as to regenerate to confirme them: ... / By William Prynne of Lincolnes Inne, Esq.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1646 (1646)	Wing P4097; Thomason E510_12; ESTC R203299	51,434	45

Godshall have no worship and men no publick Ordinances we must therefor know that God hath appointed both the Word Sacraments and Prayer as the ordinary meanes or instruments whereby he begets true spirituall life faith and grace within us by the effectuall concurrence of the spirit in and with them whereupon he frequently s Isa 55. 1 2 3. Pro. 8 32 33 34. c. 9. 3 4 5. c. 7. 1 2 3 James 1. 56 7. 19 18 19 21. 2 Tim. 2. 25 26. commands us to resort unto the Ordinances with care and conscience to the end we may be convert●d and quickened by them when we want grace as well as strengthned or confirmed when we have grace begun within us Hence is that speech of our Saviour John 5. 21 24 25 26. For as the Father raiseth up the dead and quickneth them even so the Sonne quickneth whom he will He that heareth my Word and beleeveth on him that sent me hath everlasting life and shall not come into condemnation Verily verily I say uno you the hou●e is comming and now is THAT THE DEAD in sinne and naturall corruption SHALL HEARE THE VOYCE OF THE SONNE OF GOD AND THEY THAT HEARE IT SHALL LIVE Which is thus seconded Eph. 2. 1. to 8. And you hath he quickned to wit by the Word and other Ordinances accompanied with the Spirit WHO WERE DEAD IN TRESPASSES AND SINNES But God who is rich in mercy for his great love wherewith he loved us EVEN WHEN WEE WERE DEAD IN SINNES HATH QUICKNED US together with Christ and hath raised us up together and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus c. For by grace ye are saved through Faith and that not of your selves it is the gift of God c. a pregnant Text As Christs speech to Lazarus lying dead and buried in his grave to wit Lazarus come forth was the instrumentall meanes both of his raising from the dead and comming forth of the grave accordingly John 11. 43 44. And as his words to the dead Rulers Daughter Mark 5. 4● 42. Damosell arise and Peters speech to dead Tabitha Acts 9. 40 41. Tabitha arise were the instrumentall meanes and cause both of their raising and reviving and as Gods command in the very first creation Let there be light c. was the instrumentall cause of creating light and all other creatures before they had a being Genesis 1. So the Word Sacraments and Prayer are Gods ordinary instruments whereby he quickens those who are dead in sinnes and begets saving faith with other graces in such who formerly never had them by his Spirit working in and by these meanes Hence is that notable speech of Christ to Paul Acts 26. 17 18. Now I send thee to the Gentiles to open their eyes and to turne them from darknesse to light and from the power of Satan unto God that they may receive forgivenesse of sinnes and inheritance among them that are sanctified by faith that is in me These Ordinances doe not find us living worthy or regenerate but make us such doe not presuppose faith and repentance already in us for what should work them but the contrary and therefore are ordained to beget faith and spirituall life even in those who are dead in sinnes Mark 16. 15 16. 2 Tim. 2. 25 26. Acts 16. 14 15. ch 2. 37 38. chap. 10. 44. Eph. 2. 1 c. and after that to confirme and strengthen all spirituall graces wrought within us by meanes whereof when wrought the Ordinances which first instrumentally begat them become more profitable and comfortable to us then before This is so cleer that Master t Due right of Presbyteries c. 4. sect 5. p. 285 c. Rutherfurd is forced to confesse That the Church may nay ought to give the Sacraments of Baptisme and the Lords Supper even to such as are not truly regenerated if they externally professe the Gospell as well as preach the Gospell to them though contradicting himselfe as I conceive he affirmes v Which Master Rutherfurd affirmes Divine right of Church-Government p. 280. elswhere That to come to the Lords Supper is not commanded to all not to Pagans not to children rot to the unregenerate BUT ONELY TO THE REGENERATED Of which no other reason can be given but that they are meanes of begetting as well as encreasing grace and converting as well as confirming Ordinances from which none who desire them if not actually excommunicated for obstinate impenitency and contempt against the Ordinances ought to be secluded unlesse naturall disabilities hinder them Hence w Concordia Lutherana p. 542. to 250. Martin Luther in his Greater Catechisme exciting men by many arguments to the frequent receiving of the Lords Supper the neglect whereof makes our devotion and love to Christ grow every day colder and colder causeth us at last-to grow bruitish yea extreamly to conte●●ne both the Sacrament and Word too as he there avers from his own experience which I wish those Divines who put off and deny the Sacrament to their people for moneths nay yeers together would now at last consider removes one maine Objection which deterred many from the Sacrament to wit their owne unworthinesse sinfulnesse and unpreparednesse to receive it with this encouraging argument That this Sacrament was not instituted for those that are worthy and purely cleansed from their sinnes but cloane contrary even for miserable and wretched sinners sensible of nothing but their owne unworthinesse Therefore let such a one say Lord I would very willingly be worthy of this Supper but yet I come unto it induced by no worthinesse of mine owne but trusting on thy Word alone because thou hast commanded me to come c. For the Sacrament is not to be looked upon as an hurtfull thing from which we should run with both our feet but as a saving and wholsome medicine which may heale thy diseases and give life both to thy soule and body Why then doe we so shun it as if it were a poyson as some x Master Rutherfurds Divine right of Church-Government pag 252 253 254 c. A brotherly friendly censure p. 6 7. An Antidote against foure dangerous Q●aeries with others Divines now tearme it to scarre people from it which being received would bring present death unto us Yea but some may say I am not so sensible of my sinnes and unworthinesse as I should be To such as are in this condition I can give no better advice then to looke into their owne hearts and to see whether they be not flesh and blood and may not say with Paul Rom. 7. I know that in me that as in my flesh dwelleth nothing that is good In summe by how much the lesse thou art throughly sensible of thy sinnes and defects the more reasons thou hast of comming and frequent seeking help and physick The substance whereof is but this That the frequent receiving of the Lords Supper is an effectuall meanes to

Suspention to prevent spirituall infection or punish morall pollution and publick scandalous sinnes The rather because Master e The Divine Right of Church-Government p. 241 242. Rutherfurd and others affirme that excommunication and suspention from holy Ordinances is expressed in the Books of Moses by another phrase to wit by f Levit. 19. 8. c. 18. 29. c. 22. 3. c. 23. 29. Numb 9. 13. cutting off from Israel or from the CONGREGATION of Israel that is from the Tabernacle of the Congregation where the Israelites assembled to worship God as they interpret it Exod. 12. 15. 19. Levit. 7. 20 21 25. chap. 12. 4. 9 10 14. a thing different from and not the same with putting out of the Camp which most resolve to be a civill cutting off by death not an Ecclesiasticall by excommunication as is cleer by Gen. 17. 14. compared with Exod. 4. 24 25. Levit. 20. 3 5 6 17 11. Numb 4. 18 19. However let it be one or other it intimates and proves a totall cutting off for the present from all pubblick Ordinances and the society of the faithfull not a bare suspention from the Passeover or Lords Supper onely Secondly I shall demand Whether the exclusion of these uncleane persons out of the Camp was executed either authoritatively or ministerially by the high P●iest Priests or Levites who for ought we read had no judiciall or ministeriall authority in the Camp it selfe but onely in and g See Numb c. 3. 4. about the Tabernacle or not rather by the Field Officers or Marshals of the Camp since the command of removing them out of the Camp is expresly given not to the Priests and Levites but to the children of Israel and the children of Israel did accordingly put them out of the Camp Numb 5. 1 2 3 4. And if so then what shadow of argument can be hence deduced for any Ecclesiasticall Jurisdiction vested in Priests or Presbyters by divine right to excommunicate scandalous sinners or suspend them from the Sacrament True it is that the Priest was to judge who was a Leper and to shut him up in a house when removed out of the Camp Levit. 13. 3 4 21 26 31 36. but not to turne or put him out of the Camp which our common Law writ De Leproso am●vendo proves it being directed to the Sheriffe Mayor and Temporall Officers not to Ecclesiasticall persons If then this putting of these uncleans persons out of the Campe proves any Ecclesiasticall Jurisdiction vested by Divine Institution in any persons to Excommunicate or suspend scandalous sinners from the Lords Supper it is onely in the Christian Magistate or people not in Priests or Presbyters as is pretended Thirdly whether the thrusting of Lepers and other such like uncleane persons out of the Campe be any infallible Argument that they were thereby totally secluded from all accesse unto the Tabernacle of the Congregation till they were readmitted into the campe since the Tabernacle where Gods publick worship was celebrated stood not within but without the Campe as I have proved If not then it warrants no Excommunication nor suspention of uncleane for scandalous persons from any publique Ordinances and so is most impertinently produced for proofe thereof If yea then it secluded them from all publique Sacrifices and duties of Gods worship alike or from the Passeover onely o● some other particular Sacrifice If from all alike then it warrants my conclusion that no scandalous person is to be suspended from the Lords Supper but he that is likewise excommunicated or sequestred from al other publick Ordinances If from the Passeover or some other particular Ordinance onely not from all in generall which cannot be proved then it is no proofe of an Excommunication from all publique Ordinances and the socity of Gods people for which some now over-confidently alleage it Fourthly Whether those who were thus shut out of the Camp for ceremoniall or corporall uncleannesse were not admitted to wash and purifie themselves in the h Exod. 30. 18 19 c. c. 38 8 c. 40. Laver standing between the Tabernacle and the Altar as is probable and likewise to offer their Oblations Trespasse and Sinne Offerings in the Tabernacle before their re-admission into the Camp as is more then probable if not infallible by Numb 19. 1. to 11. Levit. 14. 1. to 33. Deut. 23. 10 11. If so then their exclusion out of the Camp was no excommunication or suspention of them from the Tabernacle and all publick Ordinances in it as is pretended Yea then it necessarily followes that ceremoniall and corporall much more then morall uncleannesses are to be expiated and purged away by admission to publick Church Ordinances not seclusion from them True it is that by Levit. 7. 20 21. chap. 22. 4. to 16. That person which had any ceremoniall uncleannesse on him was prohibited to eat of the Sacrifice of the Peace Offerings which pertaine unto the Lord under paine of being cut off from his people but yet he might bring a Sinne Offering and a Trespasse Offering to the Lord as is cleer i Levit. c. 1. to c. 8. by other Texts All which considered these Texts much insisted on by Master Rutherfurd and others will prove no power vested by divine authority in Priests or Presbyters to excommunicate or suspend men from the Lords Supper The fourth Text produced is 2 Chron. 23. 19. And Jehojadah set the Porters at the gates of the House of the Lord that none which was uncleane in any thing should enter in If this Text with that of the 2 Chron. 26. 19 20. coupled to it make ought for excommunication of ceremoniall uncleane persons from the Temple and all publick Ordinances of Gods worship there solemnized as some pretend though here is onely a keeping not casting out of the Temple of such by Jehojadah his appointment alone not by any divine institution that we read of and that by the Porters only who k 1 Chron. 9. 17 18. c. 15. 18. c. 16 38 42. c. 23. 5. c. 26. 1. 12. 2 Chron. 23. 4 c. 34 ●3 c 35. 15 〈◊〉 7 7. 〈◊〉 7. ● 45 c 1●●9 〈◊〉 4● 11. were not Priests but Levites out of the house of the Lord it selfe not out of the Court before it where we read of Oblations offered up to God on the Altar as well as in the Temple it selfe 1 Kings 8. 64. 2 Chron. 7. 7. nor yet out of the Sinagogues the places of Gods ordinary worship yet certainly it makes point blank against any bare suspension onely from the Passeover or Lords Supper not here particularized since here is a totall exclusion of uncleane persons from the Temple it selfe and all publick Ordinances performed in it not from some alone even in the Objectors opinion The fift is Ezek. 44. 7 8 9. Thus saith the Lord God no stranger or uncircumcised in heart nor uncircumcised in flesh shall enter into my Sanctuary of any stranger that is among the